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And as you noted, president obama lost this state by more than 50 points. at that point, people kind of rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows. now the clinton campaign is actually sending more staff out. the reality is this, anderson, hillary clinton has a hard ceiling here. shes not going to get above 25 or 30%, but with a diffuse electorate right now, three different candidates polling, that might just be enough. anderson? >> fascinating days. phil mattingly, thanks very much. back with ...

Legitimate questions because they are highly regulated industries that benefit from a close relationship with political figures. >> peter thank you for being with us. come back again very soon. coming up in the next hour, the south goes red, another big republican night. where republicans take over southern governors mansion and the one solid south, talking about how matt went from mitch mcconnells punching bag to governor elect. and the democrats are blaming, and their words, trump mania. >> ...

I think it was a very balanced bill and could be passed in a minute in the house. it would be great if boehner brought it up and passed it. >> who is the republican establishment? >> well, we know who it was. it was the bush family. the bush family was sort of pushed aside briefly by the reagans for a bit. it was back to the bushes. its bob dole, bob michael, cloth cut republicans with some old money like the bushes. its a party of the northeast and the midwest historically and now more the sun ...

It? whatever the answers are, the results on saturday, the result this weekend is mary landrieu got skunked. she lost her senate seat by 12 points. the state picked a republican this time instead. bill cassidy will become the first republican to hold that senate seat in 132 years. the old solid south, the democratic version is gone. the new solid south is totally, solidly republican. in louisiana this weekend it was all over but the shouts of victory and the briefest pause for the reflection on ...

As the last one blue dot in the south, would it have been worth it? whatever the answers are, the results on saturday, the result this weekend is that mary landrieu got skunked. she lost her senate seat by 12 points. the state that gave her three terms in a row picked a republican this time instead. bill cassidy will now become the first republican to hold that louisiana senate seat in 132 years. the old solid south democratic version is gone. the new solid south is totally, solidly republican. ...

Whatever the answers are, the results on saturday, the result this weekend is that mary landrieu got skunked. she lost her senate seat by 12 points. the state that gave her three terms in a row picked a republican this time instead. bill cassidy will now become the first republican to hold that louisiana senate seat in 132 years. the old solid south democratic version is gone. the new solid south is totally, solidly republican. and in louisiana this weekend it was all over, but the shouts of vic...

Control. the governors, the u.s. senators, statehouses. the american south in 1930. give me 1940. right. blur. still blue. completely blue. the entire thing from texas to north carolina. 1950, please. thank you very much. the whole thing again. every governorship, statehouse. democrats had a lock on the south. here we have 1960. blue. you can have any color you want as long as its blue. democrats controlled the south. the solid south. solidly. then 1964 when president johnson signed the civil ri...

Tonight on "all in america: behind the color line" we take a look at the solid south. for generations it was a truism about american politics the democratic party had the lock on the south. now we think of the south as the opposite, the modern geographical base of the tea party led gop. its a historical shift thats made the south the reddest part of the country. where republicans rule and can count on dozens of electoral votes in election after election. the state of georgia is poised for a poss...

Reversal of post-reconstruction when -- democrats won the so-called solid south by similar margins." that kind of regional racial polarization is not, i would say, liberals playing the race card. its evidence of american politics growing racially polarized. professor of political science at fordham university. sam cedar host of majority report. and adam george editorial writer for the "new york post." robert, conservatives do get touchy when you try to say -- or when as the liberals say i suspec...

And more importantly the electorate, those who are extremists see their world falling apart. holes are beginning to come in the so-called solid south. the walls that were put up are opening up. weve built powerful coalition of whites and blacks working together and that scares literally the political life of extremism. they know they cannot win when you see an expanded electorate and people working together. and so you take that, you take the deep influence of money like the money of art polk an...